History
| LOI | |
| 1954 | Building contract |
| 1/1955 | Building started |
| Keel laid | |
| Launch | |
| Sea trial | |
| Second sea trial | |
| 1956 | Delivered to O.V.D.S. Norway |
| 8/6/1956 | Maiden voyage between Bergen and Kirknes on Hurtigruten service. |
| 13/6/1956 | Engine failure |
| 31/8/1956 | Rope in the propeller |
| 1/11/1956 | Collission with Eystein Jarl |
| 1/3/1959 | Rope in the propeller |
| 10/3/1960 | Damaged kutter in Måløy |
| 7/8/1960 | Hit a pier in Molde |
| 21/8/1960 | Damaged small boat in Risøyhamn |
| 4/12/160 | Damaged m/s Tunfisk at Bølgesalg |
| 26/1/1961 | Rope in the propeller in Honningsvåg |
| 8/1/1963 | Collision with the quay in Risøyhamn. |
| 5/4/1963 | Collision with the quay in Harstad. |
| 5/9/1966 | Engine failure |
| 21/10/1968 | Damaged m/t Lofottrail at Stramsund |
| 9/4/1969 | Finnmarken´s vawes damaged m/s Letten |
| 20/10/1971 | Engine failure |
| 10/9/1972 | Rope in the propeller |
| 31/1/1973 | Hull damage in Ålesund. |
| 15/1/1974 | Loss of anchor and chain at Måløy. |
| 10/7/1974 | On the ground in Risøyrenna. |
| 2/11/1974 | Engine failure after departure in Rørvik. |
| 30/11/1974 | She was the first Hurtigruten ship to inaugurate the new quay in Berlevåg. |
| 27/2/1975 | Loss of anchor at Tromsø |
| 12/10/1976 | Engine failure on the Folla |
| 27/10/1975 | Hull damage |
| 11/10/1976 | Boiler explosion |
| 19/1/1977 | Crack in the engine block. |
| 20/6/1977 | Funnel fire |
| 12/11/1977 | Collision with M / S Svealand. |
| 17/9/1978 | Loss of anchor and chain |
| 22/1/1979 | Hull damage in Havøysund. |
| 28/3/1979 | Engine failure |
| 8/6/1979 | Trunk damage in Trondheim. |
| 7/10/1979 | Finnmarken damaged a post vehicle in Bodø, presumably from the ship’s crane. |
| 3/11/1979 | Damaged butter oil cooler and fender in Hammerfest |
| 5/11/1979 | Hull damage in Havøysund. |
| 27/2/1980 | Hull damage in Berlevåg. |
| 5/7/1980 | Hull damage in Tromsø. |
| 10/8/1980 | Hull damage in Øksfjord . |
| 2/11/1980 | Hull damage in Havøysund . |
| 6/2/1981 | Ran aground near Moldøya, Svolvær, in the thick snow and high seas. The ship is evacuated and can free itself days later. |
| 13/9/1981 | Hull damage in Harstad . |
| 3/4/1982 | Collision with m/s Rugg |
| 4/10/1982 | Hull damage |
| 14/2/1983 | Loss of anchor at Båtsfjord . |
| 2-4/1983 | Modernized and upgraded by Mjellem & Karlsen in Bergen. The engine is overhauled (exchange engine block) and the cabins are equipped with showers and toilets. |
| 10/12/1986 | Ran aground at Øksfjord. Damage – a hole in the hull. |
| 20/5/1987 | Trunk damage in Trondheim. |
| 22/5/1987 | Engine failure in Tromsø. |
| 8/1987 | VDS and ODS merged to form the OVDS and the ship was given a new color scheme for the Funnel. |
| 2/10/1987 | Hull damage in Havøysund. |
| 5/11/1987 | Bow damage due to a collision with the quay in Berlevåg. |
| 19/1/1988 | Fire on cabin area |
| 31/1/1988 | Collision with M / S Viktoriahavn in Rørvik . |
| 4/1988 | Refurbished at Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg. |
| 18/4/1988 | Hull damage |
| 28/5/1988 | Hull damage in Rørvik. |
| 20/12/1933 | She was replaced by the M / S Richard With. The exchange takes place in Harstad. Will be decommissioned in Narvik. |
| 8/1994 | the ship was given to the Hurtigruten Museum in Stokmarknes. It should become part of the museum. |
| 1999 | She was pulled ashore and put on the dock and connected to the museum by an overpass. The chimney gets the old color scheme of the VDS. The new museum opens in the first week of 1999. The transition to the ship did not exist at the time |
| Winter 2005/06 | The ship will be extensively serviced and roofed. Certainly not a permanent solution, but definitely useful as protection against the weather. |
| 2018-2020 | Build a Museum around the ship. |